Word: generalissimoing
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...Moscow. The whole world, tongue aclack, waited only to hear when & where Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill would meet. The Nazi satellite radios guessed at everything but Mr. Roosevelt's room number. There was even talk that the Big Three might turn out to be a Big Four, with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek joining the historic rendezvous...
...handsome, confident Admiral began his task last month when he flew to Chungking. He consulted with Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, bluntly asked for his advice on continental strategy, had an initial success such as no other British military leader had attained in China. Dour "Uncle Joe" Stilwell was also impressed. Stilwell will probably become deputy commander...
...York's Roman Catholic Archbishop Spellman got back to the U.S. last August from a 46,000-mile visit to 34 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, South America, thousands of U.S. fighting men, Pope Pius XII, practically every top-flight Allied statesman and military leader, and Generalissimo Franco, and promptly published the highlights of his trip in Collier...
...momentous conference in Chungking closed last week in deafening silence. For a day and a half Lord Louis Mountbatten, Allied Commander in Southeast Asia, had talked with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his wife, with top Chinese generals, with U.S. Lieut. Generals Joseph Stilwell and Brehon Somervell. Then, looking tired, with crow's-feet showing at the corners of his eyes, Lord Louis hurried back to India...
...Moslem revolt was not thoroughly quelled until the fall of 1937. By that time Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's far distant Central Government was at war with Japan and all its energy was absorbed. For Sheng Shih-tsai, the problem was simple. He represented the minority race in a vast region surcharged with racial and religious tension; his immense fear of Japanese imperialism grew as Japan drove farther and farther into the heart of Asia. Without help, he could not maintain himself. Thus, from 1934 to 1942. he leaned ever more heavily on the U.S.S.R...